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The newest entry in the search engine market has a terrible name but an intriguing value proposition. Plonked Inc. describes its namesake search engine as a tool to significantly improve users’ ability to discover, analyze and connect with businesses. You can search …
Hortonworks bids for Spark leadership
Citing enterprise customers’ need for stability and predictability, Hortonworks Inc. said it’s changing the distribution schedule for its core Apache Hadoop platform and extended services. It’s also placing big new bets on the race to improve the performance and scalability of Apache …
VMware exec turmoil continues as COO Eschenbach exits
Just last week VMware Inc. President and Chief Operating Officer Carl Eschenbach (above right) joined IBM cloud chief Robert LeBlanc on stage at IBM’s big InterConnect conference to announce what IBM billed as a significant partnership between the two companies on hybrid …
Marketers need to unify channels to unleash big data’s potential
An analysis of your sales activity shows that 80 percent of your deals close on a Thursday. How does that affect the cadence of customer contacts you initiate early in the week? Or is it just a coincidence? Questions like these are …
IBM betting cloud race will go to the Swift-est | #IBMInterConnect
Could Apple’s greatest contribution to the IT industry turn out to be a programming language? Judging by the buzz at week’s IBM InterConnect conference, that just might be so. The Swift language that Apple created and then open-sourced just a couple of …
Watson, IoT, security on display at #IBMInterConnect Day Two
At IBM these days, it seems that Watson is the answer, regardless of the question. The Day Two general session at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas was the chance for the world’s most famous non-human Jeopardy! champion to take center stage. …
BMC upgrades toolset for mapping massive IT data centers
BMC Software Inc. has upgraded its IT discovery and dependency mapping toolset and rebranded the product as BMC Discovery. Formerly called Atrium Discovery and Dependence Mapping (ADDM), BMC Discovery has about 1,000 existing customers and is “a core component of our digital …
Sphere 3D brings hyper-convergence to virtual desktops
Sphere 3D Corp. today announced a new release of its V3 virtual application and desktop suites, targeting three different deployment scenarios ranging from large enterprise to small branch office. Sphere 3D develops software that enables virtual desktop users to access applications and virtual …
Customers take the reins in #IBMInterConnect keynote
IBM let customers do the talking as it kicked off its InterConnect 2016 cloud conference this morning in Las Vegas. Customers from Siemens AG’s Buildings Technologies Division (also an IBM partner), investment management firm Alpha Modus Corp. and Westpac Banking Corp. told …
VMware alliance leads Big Blue cloud blitz at #IBMInterConnect
IBM kicks off its biggest-ever cloud computing conference in Las Vegas today with a fusillade of announcements intended to deliver a little shock and awe while underscoring the company’s commitment to hybrid cloud. Along with more than new 50 cloud products and …